MANILA - Maguindanao Governor Esmael "Toto" Mangudadatu filed perjury and libel charges against Jerramy Joson, the woman who has accused him and his lawner Nena Santos as the ones responsible for a notebook that purportedly contains the names of Department of Justice (DOJ) officials and prosecutors, and other individuals, allegedly bribed by the Ampatuan clan to compromise the Maguindanao massacre case.

MANILA - The Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) has asked the Court of Appeals (CA) to set aside the order of the Quezon City court handling the Maguindanao massacre case that granted the bail petition of former provincial officer-in-charge Sajid Islam Ampatuan.

MANILA - Former Maguindanao governor Andal Ampatuan Sr. may have mistranslated the word “media” when he ordered his son, Andal Jr., to kill all the victims of the Maguindanao massacre, according to a witness whose testimony was among those considered in the denial of his bail plea.

MANILA - A court said there is strong evidence against Andal Ampatuan, Sr., patriarch of the Ampatuan political clan of Maguindanao, who stands accused of multiple charges of murder in connection with the November 23, 2009 Maguindanao massacre which left 58 people, mostly journalists, dead.

MANILA - The petition filed by Andal Ampatuan Jr. seeking to discharge a former mayor and ally as state witness in the 57 counts of murder filed against him and 196 others has been denied by the Court of Appeals (CA), Sunday.

MANILA, Philippines - A suspect in the Maguindanao massacre case who had been examined at the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) tested negative for poisoning, medical records released yesterday showed.